DiSCourse Seminar with Astrid Bötticher
17 May 2024, 12:00 (CEST), hybrid
Digital Science Center, Innrain 15, 1st floor, Open Space Area or Big Blue Button
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series on Technology Regulation
The field of technology regulation presents a unique challenge to traditional conceptions of policy fields. It encompasses a wide range of policy areas, including defense and security, economic and trade, international relations, research and education, and infrastructure. These various political fields present a complex tapestry of overlapping and competing regulatory interests. Technology regulation, in particular, involves a diverse array of regulatory forms that address the procedural nature of innovation. These forms can be applied in different phases of technology development.
Regulation of technology is influenced by a number of factors, including third-party funding to promote developments and mandates, prohibitions, and expectations about the future use of technology. In addition to the procedural nature of technology regulation, the technology itself influences regulators because it has its own agenda that developers embed into technology development and imposes specific technology laws on regulators. The development of quantum technology is an intriguing example that offers new avenues for exploring the policy field, which are not yet fully understood today.
Astrid Bötticher, University of Innsbruck, Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law
Astrid Bötticher is a political scientist who graduated from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and defended her dissertation at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) on the concept of radicalism in contrast to the concept of extremism. She has been engaged in research on the political processes surrounding quantum research and technology development since 2020. She was is currently writing her habilitation at the University of Jena in the field of comparative politics and established the Quantum Humanities Network in 2021. This network has been based at the University of Innsbruck (IQEL) since December 2022. Its research agenda encompasses the consequences of second-wave quantum physics for the humanities and the exploration of applications of quantum technology in the humanities.